Dear Roy:
Outstanding. What a shame that that route for young people is closed.
I was able to ride a bicycle to the station. Would buy a quart of milk
on my way to the station from a delivery van and have a simple breakfast
while playing some sort of public service announcement to start the
broadcast day. My Mother had to cash my checks for me because I was working
when the bank was open. Very interesting people pass through broadcast
stations. Another form of early education.
Obviously, we both looked older than we were. Many years latter, I
learned that I had been chosen over other (smarter?) candidates for some
important opportunities because of the experience and initiative shown by
working as a broadcast "engineer." How do young people today demonstrate
such characteristics?

73, Mac N8TT
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J. Mc Laughlin; Michigan U.S.A.
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"Roy Lewallen" wrote in message
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J. Mc Laughlin wrote:
. . .
But then, you may have taken the exam before I did. Fortunately,
licenses in those days did not have age information on them. Had a job
with
a radio station when I was underage - the owner, also a Scot, knew not
to
ask and I knew not to tell. . . .

My mother had to drive me to my first day on the job as a broadcast
engineer -- I wasn't old enough to get a driver's license or, in the
state I was in, even a learner's permit. (I did know how to drive,
though, having gotten a learner's permit in Alaska at 14. Drove quite a
bit of the way down the Alaska highway, too, unpaved at the time.) I'd
been turned down for a job as a golf caddie because I wasn't old enough.
That was 1961.

The owner of that first station I worked for became a fugitive from a
felony conviction in about 1964. Don't think they ever caught him.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL